1The National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP) at NORC at the University of Chicago is funded by the National Institute on
Aging (NIA): Wave 1 (R01 AG021487), Wave 2 (R37 AG030481), and Wave 2 Partner Data Collection (R01 AG033903).
Hannah Breslau
Melissa Howe
Eloesa McSorley
Linda Waite (PI)
Jaclyn Wong
Kristen Wroblewski
Introducing the NSHAP Wave 3
Elder Mistreatment Module
Acknowledgements
• NSHAP Respondents!
• The National Health, Social Life and Aging Project (NSHAP) is supported by
the National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute on Aging, the
Office of Women's Health Research, the Office of AIDS Research, and the
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (R01 AG021487, R37
AG030481, R01 AG033903, R01 AG043538, R01 AG048511).
• NSHAP is directed by: Linda Waite (Principal Investigator), Kathleen Cagney,
William Dale, Louise Hawkley, Elbert Huang, Diane Lauderdale, Edward
Laumann, Martha McClintock, Colm O’Muircheartaigh, Phil Schumm.
• NSHAP is also supported by NORC at the University of Chicago whose staff
is responsible for data collection, distribution, and analytic support.
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Special Thanks
NIA provided an administrative
supplement to support enhancing the W3
elder mistreatment module
NSHAP Advisory Board members
provided guidance on survey design
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Who makes NSHAP
data useful?
• NSHAP Data Users!
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Presentation Overview
• Overview of NSHAP
• NSHAP W3 Elder Mistreatment Module
• Data Access
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Thank You!Overview of NSHAP
What is NSHAP?
NSHAP is…
• A nationally representative study of community
dwelling older adults
• A longitudinal study
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What is NSHAP?
What are the objectives of NSHAP?
Describe the health of older adults:
• Evaluate the social pathways through which older adult interpersonal
and intimate connections affect health
• Identify the biological pathways through which social
connectedness affects various aspects of health
• Examine any differences between groups in the relationships
between social connectedness and health
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3 Waves of Data
Collection So Far
Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 3
(2005-06) (2015-16)(2010-11)
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Wave 3 Sampling
Goals
• Collect longitudinal data from everyone included in W1 & W2
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• Collect a first wave of NSHAP data from Baby Boomers to refresh the NSHAP sample and facilitate cohort comparisons
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• Collect data from respondents’ co-resident spouses & romantic partners
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W3 Sample Sizes
• Cohort 1 (a.k.a. “Greatest Generation” & “Returning Respondents”)
N = 2,409
• Cohort 2(a.k.a. “Baby Boomers” & “New Cohort”)
N = 2,368
Age eligible Rs given
new elder mistreatment
questions
Not given the elder
mistreatment module
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NSHAP Data from
Two Cohorts
Cohort 1 Wave 1 (2005-2006)
Adults born between 1920 and
1947 (1 person per household
selected)
Interviewed every 5 years – 3
waves of data collected to date
Co-resident romantic partners of
any age added in 2nd wave
Cohort 2 Wave 1 (2015-2016)
Adults born between 1948 and
1965 (all age eligible household
members selected)
Age ineligible co-resident
romantic partners included in 1st
wave
National area probability sample of community residing older adults,
which includes an oversampling of African Americans and Hispanics
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NSHAP Cohort 1
Sample Sizes
Wave 1 (2005-2006)
Wave 2 (2010-2011)Wave 3 (2015-2016)
3,005
respondents
ages 57-85
2,422 respondents
ages 62-90
+
955
co-resident
romantic partners
ages 36-99
2,409
=
1,678
respondents
ages 67-95
+
731
co-resident romantic
partners
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What can we learn
from NSHAP?
• Social Networks
• Social Support
• Social Activities
• Sexuality
• Physical Health
• Mental Health
• Personality
• Cognition
• Medications
• Background
Demographics
• Religion
• Attitudes
• Elder Mistreatment
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Thank You!Elder Mistreatment
NSHAP W1
EM measures
4 main questions
1. Is there anyone who you feel is too controlling over
your daily decisions and life?
2. Is there anyone who insults you or puts you down?
3. Is there anyone who has taken your money or
belongings without your OK or prevented you from
getting them even when you ask?
4. Is there anyone who hits, kicks, slaps, pushes or
throws things at you?
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NSHAP W1
EM measures
2 follow-up questions
a. In the past 12 months, how many people have done
this?
b. Thinking about the person who does this most often, is
this person someone we wrote down on your roster
earlier?
Yes: RECORD LINE NUMBER
No: Which of the following best describes this
person's relationship to you? (USE HAND
CARD) 17
Applications: W1 Elder
Mistreatment
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Applications: W1 Elder
Mistreatment
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Applications: W1 Elder
Mistreatment
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NSHAP W2
EM Questions
• Wave 2 measures
• 2 new questions
• 0 follow-up questions
• For all W2 respondents
How often have you felt threatened or frightened by a family member or
one of your friends? Would you say never, hardly ever or rarely, some of
the time or often?
• For W2 respondents with partners
How often have you felt threatened or frightened by your partner?
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Applications: W1-W2
Longitudinal Analyses
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Applications: W1-W2
Longitudinal Analyses
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Improved Measures
in Wave 3
• NIA administrative supplement supported inclusion of enhanced
elder mistreatment measures in NSHAP Wave 3!
• Added New Measures
• 11 Stem Questions
• Adapted from the PINE study screener (Dong, et al. 2014)
• + Follow Up Questions
• Added Perceived Severity Measure
• Repeated follow-up network roster questions
• Added Potential Neglect Measure
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EM Stem Questions
For this next section, please think about ways that people behave
towards you that bother you. Specifically, think of people and your
relationships with them. Since you turned 60…
1) …has there been a family conflict at home?
Yes
No
DON’T KNOW
REFUSED
2) …have you felt uncomfortable with anyone in your family?
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11 NSHAP Wave 3
EM Stem Questions
Since you turned 60…
3) …have you felt that nobody wanted you around?
4) …has anyone told you that you gave them too much trouble?
5) …have you been afraid of anyone in your family?
6) …has anyone close to you tried to hurt or harm you?
7) …has someone in your family made you stay in bed or told you that
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11 NSHAP Wave 3
EM Stem Questions
Since you turned 60…
8) …has anyone close to you called you names or put you down or
made you feel badly?
9) …has anyone forced you to do things you didn’t want to do?
10) …has anyone taken things that belong to you without your OK?
11) …has anyone borrowed your money without paying you back?
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EM Follow-Up
Questions
IF RESPONDENT ANSWERS “YES” TO Q2, Q3, Q4, Q5, Q6, Q7, Q8,
Q9, Q10, or Q11, ask:
12A. How serious of a problem was this for you?
Not serious
Somewhat serious
Very serious
DON’T KNOW
REFUSED
12B. Thinking about the person who has done this the most since you
turned 60, is this person someone we wrote down on your roster
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W1W2W3
Longitudinal Analysis?Dimension Wave 1: in past 12 mo. Wave 2: in past 12 mo. Wave 3: since age 60
Emotional
(Fear of
Known Other)
N/A
Q17NP/Q19P. How often
have you felt threatened or
frightened by a family
member or one of your
friends?
Q5. …have you been
afraid of anyone in your
family?
Q18P. How often have you
felt threatened or frightened
by your partner?
Financial Q3. Is there anyone who
has taken your money or
belongings without your
OK or prevented you
from getting them even
when you asked?
N/A
Q10. …has anyone taken
things that belong to you
without your OK?
Q11. …has anyone
borrowed your money
without paying you back?
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W3 Sample
N = 2,409 Returning Respondents & Partners
- 37 cases “Missing Legitimately” (i.e., W3
partners who were not age eligible)
2,372 valid responses to each of the 11
EM stem questions
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Practical Uses of
Findings
• Inform researchers, policy makers, and other practitioners about:
• Risk factors
• Protective factors
• Polyvictimization patterns
• Health Predictors & Outcomes
• Fuel development of interventions
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Thank You!Accessing the Data
W3 Data Release
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Access to NSHAP Data
• NSHAP data are publicly available under a Data Use Agreement
(DUA) through the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
(NACDA), located within ICPSR at the University of Michigan
• Data users must submit:
1. The completed data use agreement with original signature(s)
2. A copy of your IRB approval from your current institution
3. A data protection plan, which is a written description of how the data
will be stored at your site and how the data will be protected from
unauthorized access on your institution’s computer network
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Access to NSHAP Elder
Mistreatment Data
For people who already have an approved DUA through NACDA, the EM data are available now by contacting [email protected]
The EM data will be incorporated into the next main NACDA release no later than the end of March
Interested people who want to continue the discussion on NSHAP elder mistreatment data can do so on [email protected]
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